List of string theory topics

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This is a list of string theory topics.

String theory

• Strings
• Nambu–Goto action
• Polyakov action
• Bosonic string theory
• Superstring theory
  • Type I string
  • Type II string
    • Type IIA string theory
    • Type IIB string theory
  • Heterotic string
• N=2 superstring
• M-theory
  • Matrix theory
  • Introduction to M-theory
• F-theory
• String field theory
• Matrix string theory
• Nonlinear sigma model
• Tachyon condensation
• RNS formalism
• String theory landscape
• History of string theory
  • First superstring revolution
  • Second superstring revolution

String duality

• T-duality
• S-duality
• U-duality
• Montonen–Olive duality
• Mysterious duality

Particles and fields

• Graviton
• Dilaton
• Tachyon
• Ramond–Ramond field
• Kalb–Ramond field
• Magnetic monopole

Branes

• D-brane
• S-brane
• Black brane
• Black holes
• Black string
• Brane cosmology
• Quiver diagram
• Hanany–Witten transition

Supersymmetry

• Supergravity
• Superspace
• Lie superalgebra
• Lie supergroup

Conformal field theory

• Two-dimensional conformal field theory
• Virasoro algebra
• Mirror symmetry
• Conformal anomaly
• Conformal algebra
• Superconformal algebra
• Vertex operator algebra
• Loop algebra
• Kac–Moody algebra
• Wess–Zumino–Witten model
• Monstrous moonshine

Geometry

• Kaluza–Klein theory
• Compactification
• Why 10 dimensions?
• Kähler manifold
• Ricci-flat manifold
  • Calabi–Yau manifold
  • Hyperkähler manifold
    • K3 surface
  • G₂ manifold
  • Spin(7) manifold
• Generalized complex manifold
• Orbifold
• Conifold
• Orientifold
• Moduli space
• Hořava–Witten domain wall
• K-theory
• Twisted K-theory

Holography

• Holographic principle
• AdS/CFT correspondence

Gauge theory

• Anomalies
• Instantons
• Chern–Simons form
• Bogomol'nyi–Prasad–Sommerfield bound
• Exceptional Lie groups
  • G₂, F₄, E₆, E₇, E₈
• ADE classification
• Dirac string
• P-form electrodynamics

People

• Mina Aganagić
• Daniele Amati
• Amir Amini
• Husam Qutteina
• Nima Arkani-Hamed
• Paul S. Aspinwall
• Michael Francis Atiyah
• Tom Banks
• David Berenstein
• Jan de Boer
• Raphael Bousso
• Robert Brandenberger
• Curtis Callan
• Eugène Cremmer
• Atish Dabholkar
• Emilio Del Giudice
• Paolo Di Vecchia
• Robbert Dijkgraaf
• Michael Dine
• Jacques Distler
• Louise Dolan
• Michael Douglas
• Michael Duff
• Giorgi Dvali
• Sergio Ferrara
• Willy Fischler
• Daniel Friedan
• Rajesh Gopakumar
• Sylvester James Gates
• Michael Green
• Brian Greene
• David Gross
• Steven Gubser
• Sergei Gukov
• Alan Guth
• Jeffrey Harvey
• Petr Hořava
• Gary Horowitz
• Tasneem Zehra Husain
• Gary Gibbons
• Clifford V. Johnson
• Michio Kaku
• Renata Kallosh
• Theodor Kaluza
• Anton Kapustin
• Igor Klebanov
• Oskar Klein
• Juan Martín Maldacena
• Donald Marolf
• Emil Martinec
• Shiraz Minwalla
• Gregory Moore
• Luboš Motl
• Sunil Mukhi
• Robert Myers
• K. S. Narain
• Horațiu Năstase
• Nikita Nekrasov
• André Neveu
• Dimitri Nanopoulos
• Holger Bech Nielsen
• Peter van Nieuwenhuizen
• David Olive
• Hirosi Ooguri
• Burt Ovrut
• Joseph Polchinski
• Alexander Polyakov
• Arvind Rajaraman
• Lisa Randall
• Seifallah Randjbar-Daemi
• Martin Rocek
• John H. Schwarz
• Nathan Seiberg
• Ashoke Sen
• Suvankar Dutta
• Samson Shatashvili
• Steve Shenker
• Warren Siegel
• Eva Silverstein
• Matthias Staudacher
• Paul Steinhardt
• Andrew Strominger
• Leonard Susskind
• Charles Thorn
• Paul Townsend
• Sandip Trivedi
• Neil Turok
• Cumrun Vafa
• Gabriele Veneziano
• Erik Verlinde
• Herman Verlinde
• Edward Witten
• Tamiaki Yoneya
• Alexander Zamolodchikov
• Alexei Zamolodchikov
• Barton Zwiebach

See also

• Glossary of string theory